On Sat, 12 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:16:51PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:22:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:43:55PM +0000, Marius Strobl wrote:
>>>> marius 2007-05-11 23:43:55 UTC
>>>>>>>> FreeBSD src repository
>>>>>>>> Modified files:
>>>> lib/libc/sparc64 Symbol.map
>>>> sys/sparc64/include profile.h
>>>> sys/sun4v/include profile.h
>>>> Log:
>>>> - Add bits for userland profiling. For sun4u this is compile-tested
>>>> only.
>>>>>> Does this mean you're able to run sun4v? When I checked the other week it
>>> was broken by the interrupt filter changes back in February.
>>>> Ah, no, that means I made a typo; for sun4v it's compile-tested only :)
>> OK, probably a followup commit would be good. Inaccurate comments in commit
> logs have a way of confusing people when they look at them years later.
Speaking of sun4v -- it sounds like sun4v support in 7.0 is at risk. I think
I understand from a comment I saw from Kip that there are (at least) two
issues:
(1) An issue in VM handling that will be resolved by alc's replacement
contigmalloc. I don't know what the details are here.
(2) An issue involving sun4v breakage post-ifilters. No details here either.
If we're going to ship a 7.0 release for sun4v, we need to get these things
resolved. Do we have a sense of what work is required here?
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge